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השבוע יצא לחנויות ספר שעליו עבדתי קרוב ל-7 שנים - ההיסטוריה הסודית של היהדות. הספר חושף לראשונה את הרקע ההיסטורי להופעת היהדות, ובכלל זאת עונה על השאלות: מי כתב את התורה? באלו נסיבות היסטוריות נולדה השבת? מה הוביל את רבי יהודה הנשיא לכתוב את המשנה? למה אוכלים עוגות גבינה בשבועות?
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מעט דיונים בעברית היו אמוציונליים כמו הדיון שסבב את החָצָב haaretz.co.il/magazine/the-e…
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1/9 Simchat Torah is not in the Torah, and the Talmud never mentions it. It is younger than Chanukah and Purim. The holiday grew out of a fight between two rabbinic centers over how to read the Torah, and the evidence runs from a 9th-century prayer book to a 1211 charter.
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8/9 Maimonides, in Cairo, calls the one-year cycle "widespread in all Israel"; some, he adds, finish in three years. His son Abraham says Maimonides condemned the city's two sets of customs. In 1211 the Land-of-Israel congregation signed a charter vowing to change nothing.
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9/9 Then the congregation disappears from the record. We do not know how it faded. The charter survived in the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of their own synagogue. Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=tF2f1-os…
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At Passover in Roman Jerusalem, one soldier's obscene gesture set off a panic that killed ten thousand people – trampled by their own fleeing crowd.
War of the Jews, Book II, Chapter 12. 🧵
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The case went to Claudius in Rome – with young Agrippa, the dead king's son, arguing for the Jews.
Claudius condemned the Samaritans, banished Cumanus, and had the tribune Celer dragged around Jerusalem in chains and executed.
Justice – this once.
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Josephus's verdict on the Cumanus years: every spark was an accident. The tinder was the government itself.
Full chapter: youtube.com/watch?v=F6Dv0M_T…
Previous chapter: youtube.com/watch?v=fPQ0QUfk…
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1/8 The Hebrew word for buckwheat, kusemet, is biblical. Buckwheat is not. Kusemet appears three times in the Hebrew Bible: Exodus 9:32, Isaiah 28:25, Ezekiel 4:9.
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7/8 In 1903 Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein objected, in the Aruch HaShulchan, Orach Chaim 208:18: buckwheat is not among the five species, and its blessing is always ha-adama.
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8/8 He added, drily, that this is known to most people. It was not, and it still is not. We still bless buckwheat as though it were biblical. Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=uI89DSb_…
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